Vivian Stanshall
Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, July 1971
"I take a hell of a lot of drugs." Says Vivian Stanshall describing how inspiration appears. "Then I go out to a hilltop with an anthology of Patience Strong where I find things just come to me!"
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